Nachel Marty - Beer For Dummies

Beer For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Marty Nachel with Steve Ettlinger

Foreword by Jim Koch

Brewer, Samuel Adams Boston Lager

Beer For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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About the Authors

The course of Marty Nachels life took a portentous turn in 1982, when a spontaneous road trip to Toronto led to an even more spontaneous tour of the Molson Brewery. Never before had Marty tasted beer so fresh and so diverse. With that new and wonderful sensory experience, the die was cast. Life had changed for the better.

Marty went on to visit many more breweries somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 in North America and Europe. More importantly, he started brewing his own beer at home (1985). Not satisfied with just tasting his own brew, he chose to become a Certified Beer Judge so he could taste others beer as well (1986).

All the while Marty was brewing beer, judging beer, and touring breweries, he also furthered his career as a freelance writer on these topics. After his first article was published in All About Beer magazine (1987), there was no looking back. Martys articles began appearing in many beer and food publications in print and online.

By 1995, Marty had scored his first book contract, writing Beer Across America, which was based on the newsletters he wrote for the Beer of the Month club of the same name. The following year he authored the first edition of Beer For Dummies, followed immediately by Homebrewing For Dummies. Due to the ever-growing popularity of homebrewing, the second edition of Homebrewing For Dummies was written in 2008.

Never one to let his taste buds sit idle, Marty kept them busy by serving as a beer evaluator at the Beverage Testing Institute in Chicago from 1995 to 1998. That same year, Marty got the call from Denver he was invited to judge beer at the Great American Beer Festival and is now a regular there.

For several years now, Marty has been hosting beer tastings and leading beer appreciation classes as well as beer sensory classes for homebrewing groups in the Chicago area.

Always looking for new opportunities to promote good beer, Marty recently launched the Ale-Conner Beer Certification program, which allows beer enthusiasts to prove their knowledge, passion, and appreciation of craft beer. Check out www.beerexam.com.

Steve Ettlinger is the book producer/editor/agent/co-writer of more than 40 consumer-oriented books and the author of 7, most of which are food- and drink-related (he produced the best-selling Wine For Dummies ). His first book, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores, has been in print since 1988. His most recent book is Twinkie, Deconstructed. You can find more information on Steve at www.steveettlinger.com.

Dedication

Marty Nachel: Dedicating this book to my wife, Patti, is but one miniscule way of acknowledging her endless patience and forbearance as Ive rabidly pursued my avocation these past 20-some odd years (some odder than others). For all the times she listened to me babble on about a great beer I tasted or brewery I visited or watched me jet off to another beer festival or beer junket, I owe her so, so much more.

I also want to dedicate this book to my children, Drew and Jill, both now in college. Theyve visited more breweries in their young lives than most people do in an entire lifetime. Mostly in the course of family vacations, Id schedule brewery stops in between visits to national parks and theme parks. They patiently endured my mania so I might continue to pursue my love of writing about beer. I hope that someday theyll recognize snippets of their youth in the pages of my books.

Authors Acknowledgments

Marty Nachel: Acknowledgements are the least I can extend to a team of dedicated people at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., who have given their unwavering support and enthusiasm to this project. That team includes Tracy Boggier; David Lutton; my very patient and focused project editor, Georgette Beatty; copy editor Jennette ElNaggar; and Carrie Sherrill in the marketing department, who saw that my requests for publicity materials were promptly taken care of. Last but not least is technical reviewer Clay Robinson of the phenomenal Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis (Im a fan!).